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JOSEPH nH. BEAL, EDWA'RD J. SAWYER, AND GRANVILLE S. WEBSTER, OF

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Lettera Patent No. 67,250, dated July 30, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER CORSEIS.

TO .ALL/.TO WHOM'THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it known that, 1m JOSEPH H. BsAL, GRANVILLE S'. WEBSTER, and EDwAnDJ. SAWYER, of Boston, in the county of Su`ollt ,'e'nd State of Massachusetts, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in the Manufac- `ture of Corsets: and do hereby declare the following to be n full, clear, and exact description thereof, due

reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and which exhibit a perspective viewof onrinvention.

One object of thislin'vention is to construct a corset which, while possessing several other advantages over corsets heretofore made, is much cheaper in construction and lighter in weight.

The invention consists in constructing the corset of paper, either moulded from the pulp upon a suitable `transparent, and, while possessing the requisite amout of stiffness is, to a considerable extent, elastic.

In the drawings A denotes the body of the corset, mode from paper prep'nred by u peculiar process, or by saturating it in sulphuric acid for a certnin length of time. The body of the,corsetis perforated with numerous holes, a a a, etc., to allow of a free :exit of the perspiration from the body of the wearer.

A corset made as above described possesses Athe advantage, as before stated, of being light and suficien'tlyr strong and elastic, at the same time being cheap of construction. It can be shaped or moulded with the greatest facility,'and the material of which it is formed being the cheapest known in the` market, it can be furnished at a. greatly reduced cost. When completed it has but little weight, and its elasticity is suflicieutfor all practical purposes. It thus possesses advantages which a corset made of other material cannot possess, and is in all respects superior t'o any now in use.

We claim, as an improved article ofmanufacture- A corset made from paper or paper-pulp, or their treatment by orcombination with other materials, substantially as explained.

JOSEPH H. BEAL, l GRANVILLE S. WEBSTER, Witnesses: EDWARD J. SAWYER. Y Guss. H. GRIFFIN, l

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